Education
2011 PhD in Biology, University of Bonn, Germany
2005 Diploma (MSc equivalent), University of Bonn, Germany
Scientific positions
since 2022 Head of Section Evolutionary Genomics
2017-2022 Group leader in the project “AG Ricefish”, Leibniz competition 2017, Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2016 – 2017 Maternity leave
2015 – 2016 PostDoc in the group Evolutionary Genetics of Fishes, MPI for Evolutionary Biology, Plön
2014 – 2015 Maternity leave
2013 – 2014 DFG research fellowship holder (PostDoc), Eawag, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
2012 – 2013 Research assistant (PostDoc), Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn: Margarethe Koenig Award
2011 – 2012 Research assistant (PostDoc), Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2007 – 2010 Research assistant in the DFG-project “Patterns and processes of a multiple cichlid diversification along a unique geographical gradient in the Lower Congo River: Are species complexes fluid genomic networks?” (SCHL 567/4, MI 649/8)
Grants
2017 Research group “AG-Ricefish”, Leibniz Competition 2017 (SAW-2017-ZFMK-4)
2013 DFG research fellowship (SCHW 1690/1-1)
2012 Margarethe Koenig Award, Zoological Research Museum Koenig, Bonn
2009 Travel grant of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
2007 Travel grant of the Alexander Koenig Gesellschaft
2006-2007 Graduate stipend (GEFFRUB) of the University Bonn
2006 Annette Kade graduate stipend, American Museum of Natural History, New York
2006 Travel grant of the American Genetics Association
2005/2006 Travel grant of the Volkswagen foundation